Cheadle Hulme School
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Cheadle Hulme School
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| Motto | Latin: In Loco Parentis ("In place of a parent") |
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| Established | 1855 |
| Type | Independent day school |
| Head | Lucy Pearson |
| Senior Deputy Head | John Winter |
| Location |
Claremont Road Cheadle Greater Manchester SK8 6EF England Coordinates: 53°22′07″N 2°11′39″W / 53.3686°N 2.1942°W |
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| DfE number | 356/6019 |
| DfE URN | 106157 Tables |
| Students | 1400~ |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 4–18 |
| Houses | Marsh, Whitehead, Allen and Clarke |
| School song | "Jerusalem" |
| Former pupils | Old Waconians |
| Website | Cheadle Hulme School |
Cheadle Hulme School is a coeducational independent day school in Cheadle Hulme, , England, for pupils aged 4 to 18 years old, and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
Founded in 1855 as The Manchester Warehousemen and Clerks' Orphan Schools, its original intake consisted solely of "orphans" (children who had lost their fathers), who were sent to an existing school in Shaw Hall, Flixton. The school moved into its own premises in Park Place, Ardwick in 1861, and to its current location in 1869.
The school's current status as an independent school dates back to 1976 when the Labour government abolished the Direct Grant System.
Today the school covers 83 acres, has around 1,400 pupils, and in addition to its academic programme offers a wide variety of extra-curricular activities. The most recent inspection report rated pupils’ achievement throughout the school, the range of extra curricular activities, pupils' personal development and leadership and management as "outstanding", and confirmed that "the school meets all the requirements of the Independent School Standards Regulations 2010".
In 2011 the school launched a ten-year strategic plan, including aims to spend 10% of the gross fee income in bursarial support, reintroduce the house system and complete various building projects.
In the early 1850s, life expectancy for those working in the inner-cities was extremely poor and Manchester was no exception. Many of these workers were worried about the fate of their children should they die. A school for the orphans of warehousemen and clerks, which later became the Royal Russell School, had already been set up in London in 1853, and on 20 September 1854, a representative from the London school met with some Manchester men (One of whom was Ezekiel Browne) in the Albion Hotel to gather support for it. During the discussion, support for a local school became clear, and following this meeting a committee was formed to develop the idea. The school was to be called "The Manchester District Schools for Orphans and Necessitous Children of Warehousemen and Clerks", and it was to be open to all children, regardless of gender or religious background.
The proposal was advertised to warehousemen and clerks across the north-west of England; the men were asked for one guinea or more per year, which would pay for their child's education and well-being, should the father die and the family left "necessitous". A set of rules was created, which outlined how the school should be run; these were adopted at the first meeting of the subscribers of 26 February 1855. These rules included the ages of admission (between 7 and 12 years old), with boys being taught until the age of 14, and girls until the age of 15, and that the school was for orphans and necessitous children of warehousemen and clerks only. Proposals for a complementary day school were discussed extensively, but this idea was postponed until the orphan school had been successfully set up.
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